by Rachelle Williams, The Tico Times, Costa Rica – Growing up on a sustainable farm in Louisiana, Jennifer Leigh Smith seemed destined to work in environmental protection. Leaving behind a career of almost eight years as a lawyer for an environmental firm, Smith decided to start anew in Costa Rica where she founded Community Carbon Trees, a nonprofit organization devoted to working with communities to plant trees and purify the air to counteract the effects of global warming.
Smith chose to settle in Costa Rica for its lush tropical rainforest and unique environmental protection laws – at the time, Costa Rica was the only country that gave trees and rivers the right to be defended in court.
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